Great story! Cracked has a surprising amount of great articles and serious journalism...mixed with fart jokes! grin I hit that site almost over day. What a harrowing experience it had to be. On level it killed less people than the firbombing of Tokyo, but then the people that survived attacks like that didn't have to deal with radiation on top of the devastation.
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